Before we get underway: I'm sorry, we don't have enough headline space to write 'KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.6.0'. Then again, do any non-anal people every refer to it that way? No? I thought so. In any case, there's a new KDE version out with lots of new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

Well, regarding the application launcher menu, did you know you can change it to a different form that is very similar to the old/classic menu. And maybe you would like another one more: Lancelot, which i like the most. Well in the end you don't even need a menu like this, you can just use KRunner (Alt+F2) for it. I think that's what is so beautiful about KDE's desktop. All is built out from components which you can combine almost as you please so you can built the desktop just as you want it. You can't get anything like this on any other desktop.